Pakistan – a buffer state created artificially under British imfluence between Iran and India , to separate the Indian Muslim population from the rest of India , hoping to calm ethnic comflicts , a nation of 180 million souls , where Karachi is the main port and largest city . I had the opportunity to visit the city several times on the last voyage , but nobody had the courage to leave the port and go outside the city. Although the GDP and the country’s resources are impressive , all wealth is held in the hand corrupt elite , most people living in appalling poverty , surviving on a few dollars a day, or in agriculture or fishing . Fishing here consists of getting in some small wooden boats and going far away from shore , very unsafe , without any electrical systems or sleeping conditions , these small boats we often narrowly miss with the big ships . Karachi port is very bad , in the sense that it doubles as an open sewer and landfill , every day on the water surface there is gathering a massive amount of garbage , which simply smell very bad , and the smell is augmented by the Persian Gulf heat . I met nice people though here , but not many . I wouldn’t recommend a visit here any time soon (neither in neighboring India , while we are on the subject)